# #alan_watts

> A collection of Alan Watts' philosophical teachings and insights on consciousness, identity, spirituality, and the human condition, explored through his books, quotes, and cultural interpretations.

## Links

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## Memos

- [The Wisdom of Insecurity](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c8bfb3): 'The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety' by Alan Watts. We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to...
- [Fictional Character](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a11a89): The fictional character shirt was inspired by JP Sears, a Spiritual Entertainer and YouTube personality, who wears the label in his some of videos as he portrays characters outside himself. For me,...
- [Skin Encapsulated Ego](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c4c0dc): Alan Watts argues, with equal parts conviction and compassion, that “the prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with...
- [Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ca6bb2): Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness is an animated journey into the depths of the human mind with Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Alan Watts; exploring three psychedelic trips that together...
- [memory](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4b4e82): Reflections "Memories are knowledge about things, not of things." ~ Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity Tags notecard alanwatts thewisdomofinsecurity
- [Showing 'On'](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/dc9c3c): "The point of the stage is not to 'show off' but to 'show on'." ~ Alan Watts Tags alan_watts
- [Spiritual Entertainment](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/07f44a): Spiritual Entertainment is a public performance crafted with the intent of eliciting, for the audience, a deeper connection to the distinct spiritual essence that all beings naturally possess. I...
- [Turn Work Into Play](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/31e8a5): Tags alan_watts
- [The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/6757e2): 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are' by Alan Watts is a must-read. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and...
- [Judo](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4b861e): Judo, meaning "gentle way", is the mastering of an opposing force by giving into it. [1][2] References Judo, Wikipedia The Wisdom of Insecurity, Alan Watts Tags thewisdomofinsecurity, alanwatts
- [Watts Bot](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/63ea67): WattsBot is a co-creative project, orchestrated by Bot Boutique, in which fans of Alan Watts are able to highlight his books as “intents” and, thus, train an AI with his wisdoms. Later, we will be...
- [Tao: The Watercourse Way](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/bfcad4): 'Tao: The Watercourse Way' is a book by Alan Watts. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The...
- [You are the sky.](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/f75b41): You are the sky. You will cease to feel isolated when you recognize, for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky, you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, your sensation of...
- [I am not being serious, but I am being sincere.](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/75c55f): "I am not being serious, but I am being sincere." ~ Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind This, for me, is a portrayal of Metamodernism. Listen Tags alan_watts metamodernism
- [worry](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/6bb93c): Tags alan_watts
- ['Doing' things that are really supposed to 'happen'](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/2f8836): This philosophy was derived from a passage in Out of Your Mind by Alan Watts. [1] It is, in a way, like we were when we were babies; when we hadn't been told anything and didn't know anything other...
- [What shall we do about it?](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4e1a87): The question "what shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what do about it are the same...
- [Self doesn’t look at self.](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/800910): The following is an excerpt from The World As Self by essayist Alan Watts. [1] As you read it, be present with the feeling of vibration in your body. Just as, you don't notice what your pineal gland...
- [This One's On Me](https://staging.mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/0f392f): The following is an excerpt from The World As Self by essayist Alan Watts. [1] Just because something cannot be put into a logical category, does not indicate that it isn't real. The self, you see,...